'Where's your friend Glitsky?' Moses asked. 'I thought he was going to be here.'
'He might show yet – he said something about going down to Monterey. Priorities.' Hardy gestured at the throng. 'Glitsky or not, though, this looks like it's working.'
'It may be our best idea ever,' Moses answered. He tended to hyperbole even when he wasn't drinking, and he'd had about four beers already.
'It might be your best idea, but I personally have had better ones.'
'Yeah, such as what?'
'Such as marrying your sister.'
Which, of course, Moses couldn't dispute.
'Still,' Hardy was conciliatory. 'I have to admit I was worried.'
McGuire had poured himself another paper cupful of stout. He drank off a third of it. 'About what?'
'About what, he asks. Oh, nothing, Mose, it's been so mellow in the city lately, whatever could one find to worry about?'
Moses drank again, shook his head. 'Not here. It would never happen here. Not in my bar.'
'I've heard that song before… never in San Francisco either, but guess what…?'
Moses gestured. 'Hey, look out there now, Diz. Just look.'
Hardy's eyes raked the crowd. There was a sea of faces, all kinds. 'Okay… so? This proves something?'
'I think so, Diz. I really do. Hey, two days ago, all last week, you remember… now look at this. We're moving on.'
Hardy hit his Guinness tap and let an inch or two of the black nectar fall into his cup. He drank it off in a gulp, scanned the crowd one more time, turned to his brother-in-law. 'Maybe,' he said. 'Let's hope so.'
John Lescroart
JOHN LESCROART, the New York Times best-selling author of such novels as The Mercy Rule, The 13th Juror, Nothing but the Truth, and The Hearing, lives with his family in northern California.
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